Psilocybin Preparation, Journey & Integration Support in Colorado
Grounded psychedelic support for your natural medicine journey, from preparation through integration in Colorado
Within – Beyond
THE AWARENESS PEAK PROCESS
I guide clients through five elevations (stages) of the psychedelic journey.
1. Base Camp
Planning
- Every great expedition begins with planning, creating a foundation for the journey ahead.
- We'll explore your medical history, intentions, creating a foundation for safety and informed preparation.
2. The Ascent
Preparation
- You don't have to know every step.
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Together we continue to build trust, safety, emotional readiness through mindfulness, grounding skills, intention setting, nervous system regulation, and practical planning.
Preparation sessions are designed to help you approach your experience with greater awareness, intention, and practical readiness.
3. The Peak
Natural Medicine Psilocybin Journey
- Awareness expands.
- Journeys have a peak moment when the landscape opens, the horizon expands; we begin to see ourselves with greater honesty, compassion, and clarity.
- I will walk beside you to provide a safe, grounded and respectful presence while allowing you to have your own experience.
4. The Descent
Integration
- The goal isn't to stay at the peak, it's to discover what you want to carry with you as you make your way home.
- Insights without action slowly fade. I create space for you to reflect & explore what emerged.
- This stage focuses on exploring your experiences and possibly translating them into sustainable changes that improve relationships, purpose, health, and daily living.
5. Beyond
Continuing the Journey
- Transformation continues long after the journey.
- I support you as you merge what you've discovered within, into the bigger picture beyond.
COMPLIMENTARY 15 MINUTE CONNECTION CALL
Start with a conversation.
Before anything else, we connect.
This conversation gives you an opportunity to share what brings you here, ask questions, and ensure a good fit.
We may explore:
What you are hoping to understand, explore, or work through
What brought you to natural medicine
What kind of support you are looking for
Your expectations and intentions
Whether the Awareness Peak approach feels like a good fit
What the next steps would look like
There is no pressure to move forward.
Sometimes just starting the conversation is a step forward.
EVALUATION & PREPARATION SESSIONS
Evaluation
The evaluation is an opportunity to explore your goals, history, current circumstances, support system, expectations, and readiness for this type of work.
This process helps determine whether the services that are offered are an appropriate fit and whether additional support or consultation may be appropriate before moving forward.
We may discuss:
Your intentions for the experience
Relevant personal and emotional history
Current life circumstances and stressors
Previous experiences with psychedelics or other altered states
Medical history including current medications or other relevant considerations
Physical and emotional safety considerations
Your support system and environment
Expectations surrounding the experience
Your ability to work with challenging emotions or uncertainty
What you hope may change or become clearer
The goal is to create the strongest possible foundation for approaching it with safety, awareness, informed choice, preparation, and respect.
The evaluation may also determine that natural medicine services are not the appropriate next step.
Preparation
Once we have determined that we’re a good fit and this work is appropriate, we’ll begin the preparation process. These sessions help you become familiar with the process and develop practical tools for your experience.
Together, we may explore:
Setting intentions without becoming attached to a specific outcome
Understanding the nature of psychedelic experiences
Recognizing that difficult moments can be part of the process
Grounding and mindfulness practices
Breath and body awareness
Emotional regulation skills
Creating a supportive setting
Identifying personal resources and sources of comfort
Developing a plan for after the experience
Discussing boundaries, communication, and support
Preparing loved ones or trusted supports when appropriate
Psilocybin preparation is not about trying to predict or control the experience. It is about learning how to meet the experience.
NATURAL MEDICINE PSILOCYBIN SESSIONS
The Psilocybin Journey
For those who are appropriately assessed, prepared, and choosing to participate within the applicable Colorado natural medicine framework, the psilocybin experience is approached with safety, intention, preparation, respect, and care.
The experience begins well before the medicine is taken.
Before the session
We revisit:
Your intention
Your plan for the experience
The environment and comfort
Communication and support
Practical considerations for the day
What to expect when the experience begins
Ways to respond if challenging emotions or sensations arise
You are not expected to “do” anything during the experience.
During the experience
The experience may involve changes in perception, emotion, memory, sense of time, bodily awareness, or perspective.
You may experience:
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Deep emotions
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Memories or personal reflections
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Shifts in perspective
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Heightened sensory awareness
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Periods of stillness or inward attention
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Joy, gratitude, sadness, uncertainty, or other emotions
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Experiences that are difficult to immediately understand
There is no predetermined outcome.
The role of support is to provide a safe, grounded, respectful presence while allowing you to have your own experience.
You do not have to navigate difficult terrain alone.
After the experience
The session does not end simply because the acute effects have subsided.
Time is provided to return gradually, reconnect with your surroundings, and transition out of the experience.
We may briefly reflect on what you are noticing without attempting to immediately interpret or explain everything.
Some experiences make immediate sense.
Others unfold over days, weeks, or longer.
That is why integration matters.
INTEGRATION SESSIONS
Turn experience into something you can live.
An experience can be powerful.
But lasting change often comes from what happens afterward.
Integration creates space to slow down, reflect, and explore what the experience may mean within the context of your everyday life.
Together, we may explore:
What you experienced
What surprised you
Emotions or memories that surfaced
New perspectives
Questions that remain
Changes in relationships or priorities
Patterns you may now see differently
Insights you want to carry forward
Practical changes you may want to make
Ways to reconnect with your values and intentions
Integration is not about forcing an interpretation.
It is about making room for meaning to emerge.
The question becomes:
“How do I live differently because of what I experienced?”
That might mean making a small change.
Having a difficult conversation.
Creating a healthier boundary.
Returning to something you love.
Letting something go.
Or simply becoming more aware of how you move through your life.
YOGA & MINDFUL MOVEMENT
Prepare through the mind & body.
Yoga and mindful movement can be incorporated into preparation and integration to support grounding, body awareness and presence.
Sessions may include:
Gentle yoga
Breath awareness
Grounding
Body scanning
Mindful movement
Stillness
Meditation
Somatic awareness
The purpose is not performance.
It is learning to notice what is happening within you without immediately needing to change it.
These practices can become tools you can return to before, during, and after your experience.
NATURE SESSIONS
Some conversations belong outside.
Nature creates space to slow down, breathe, and reconnect.
Walking alongside the mountains can offer a different kind of environment, one that allows conversation, silence, movement, and observation to coexist.
Nature sessions may include:
Mindful walking, or hiking
Intentional conversation
Grounding practices
Breathwork
Sitting in stillness
Connecting with the natural environment
There is no need to force insight.
Sometimes clarity comes when we stop trying so hard to find it.
One step. One breath. One moment at a time.
Meet KRISTA
I’ve climbed mountains made of granite, and I’ve climbed through grief and uncertainty, each changing me in ways I could have never imagined.
I was born in Wisconsin where “ope” is a lifestyle and cheese curds are a food group. I’m equal parts mountain lover and comfy couch sitter. After losing my son, a US Marine, the world felt unrecognizable and somewhere within the wreckage, I decided the only reasonable thing to do was to start climbing state highpoints and 14ers, and crossing finish lines in triathlons. Eventually, I found my way driving to the mountains and living in Colorado. Step by step, the mountains gave back my authentic smile, and natural psilocybin medicine gave back my life.
As a Colorado Natural Medicine Professional, I meet you where you are; with empathy, presence, and a deep respect for the path you are walking. I don’t just understand this work professionally, I understand it personally.
